Die doppelte Transformation in der Automobilindustrie

Research into the double transformation in the automotive industry is strongly dominated by quantitative forecasts on future job losses. Digitalisation and electromobility are often not considered in context. Studies on the current and double transformation dynamics are still rare. This article provides a quantitative snapshot of the status of the transformation from the employees’ point of view. The question is which concrete technologies of digitalisation and electromobility (in which combination) have already arrived at workplaces in the automotive industry. The empirical basis is an online survey with over 4100 employees in the industry. After methodological details on the survey, sample and weighting, descriptive evaluations trace the breadth of the digital and ecological transformation in the industry and show the distribution of diverse technologies along central sample characteristics (gender, age, qualification, occupation) – first separately and then in combination. The data generates a technologically differentiated insight into the state of the double transformation at the workplace level within the German automotive sector.